Comments on: Opportunity Urbanism http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2007/06/20/opportunity-urbanism/ The Thoughts of a Technologist Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:22:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Josh http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2007/06/20/opportunity-urbanism/#comment-3976 Josh Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:16:58 +0000 http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2007/06/20/opportunity-urbanism/#comment-3976 Definitely an interesting perspective...lots of cool graphs and charts. I am not sure that the trends support the claims, though. Texas has, in general, been a leader in driving movement towards the new economy (see this report for some data points: http://www.kauffman.org/pdf/2007_State_Index.pdf) but Houston continues to be an old economy city and is starting to lag the east coast. The real shift from old to new economy will come from technology and process arbitragers who capitalize in the general under-utilization of new technology and process in old economy industries. Examples would be energy (slowest adopters of new ideas and technology), transportation (the port is ripe for a change) and manufacturing (lot's of older generation running these shops with little to know innovation). Definitely an interesting perspective…lots of cool graphs and charts. I am not sure that the trends support the claims, though. Texas has, in general, been a leader in driving movement towards the new economy (see this report for some data points: http://www.kauffman.org/pdf/2007_State_Index.pdf) but Houston continues to be an old economy city and is starting to lag the east coast.

The real shift from old to new economy will come from technology and process arbitragers who capitalize in the general under-utilization of new technology and process in old economy industries. Examples would be energy (slowest adopters of new ideas and technology), transportation (the port is ripe for a change) and manufacturing (lot’s of older generation running these shops with little to know innovation).

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